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putting a broken century together
Arnold Schoenberg is generally seen as the composer who did to music what Jackson Pollock was to do to art. Discard the old rules and take it into new realms, psychological and emotional planes hitherto unexplored, or unrepresented in that … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alice Herz-Sommer, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Koestler, Diego Rivera, Franz Kafka, G. H. Schubert, Gustav Mahler, James Levine, Milton Babbitt, Pablo Picasso, Robert Craft, Robert Schumann, Sigmund Freud, Wagner
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A SALTY DOG ON THE PORT SIDE
A communist sea dog who stayed away from the starboard, or right wing side of the battleship Potemkin. Sergei Eisenstein‘s Potemkin was a film that proclaimed his faith as an artist of revolution and transcended it. It was a work … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alexander Nevsky, Antonin Artaud, Artaud, Douglas Fairbanks, Eduard Tisse, Eisenstein, Gilles Deleuze, Ils Huygens, Karl Marx, Leni Riefenstahl, Potemkin, Richard Wagner, Russian cinema, Sergei Eisenstein, Sinclair Lewis, Soviet Cinema, Stalin, Trotsky, Wagner
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FROM CRAFTSMAN TO GENTLEMAN: AN ALLEGORICAL PREMISE
Albrecht Durer( 1471-1528 ) is usually called the greatest German artist, despite the importance accorded to Matthias Grunewald, whose more wild and fantastic fervor, even hallucinatory art, is more to the modern taste than Durer’s methodical exploration of the world … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Agnes Frey, Albrecht Durer, Erasmus, Erwin Panofsky, german art, Italian Renaissance, John Canaday, Leonardo Da Vinci, Martin Buber, Martin Luther, Matthias Grunewald, Renaissance Art, Wagner
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Aesthetics of Nihilism: Death as a ''Ready Made''
The general chaos was captured in the driving art movement in Germany in the years between the World Wars by German Expressionism. But once Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party began their ascent into power, culminating in 1933 with the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Modern Art, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Dadaists, Edmund Husserl, Eugene Davidson, George Grosz, German Expressionism, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Heidegger, John Heartfield, Julius Streicher, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Heidegger, Max Ernst, Michael Zimmerman, Raoul Hausmann, Salvador dali, Sigmeund Freud, Wagner
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Slow Dancing With the Hangman
Emotionally frigid and an insensitivity comparing favorably with the Waffen SS, filmmaker Fritz Lang(1890-1976) possessed the necessary psychological baggage to create the ”film noir ” genre of cinema. His conjunction of pathologies and neurosis, fueled by an expansive ego, Lang … Continue reading
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Tagged Freud, Fritz Lang, Mark Jenkins, Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Theodor Adorno, Wagner
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